crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Find a link to the full article, with suggested days, times, and other helpful facts, in the Small Business Section below. Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. What Makes People Happy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. Ideally, they will help you understand technology ROI, innovation accounting, and also help you understand where you can cut costs and where you need to invest.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Shira Sue Carmi, the founder of Launch Collective, reminds us that the business of launching a clothing brand is as important as the artistry: Fashion is amazing in the way it balances art and commerce, but it’s a business. Many people want to start a clothing brand or clothing line. After all, how difficult could it be?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

To explore these, I’ll give you two examples: one, Shep , a browser extension travel tool for SMEs from my company, and the other from Litr.ly, a made-up company that allows writers (copy, technical, editorial, fiction, etc.) you are sunk. Your quick answer to The Question of “What does your company do?” can be framed in a variety of ways.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Analyzing 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems to Find the 20 Top Reasons that Startups Fail. After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Investors Companies. January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I did a lot of technical interviewing. I started my business out of necessity, after being fired from the position as CFO of a restaurant group I was forced to find a way to support my family of 4. Each business has a story. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. Photo Credit: David Moise. I led projects.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. Advisors, they’re easier to find than you think. Advisors, they’re easier to find than you think. Don’t.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you can't find what you are looking for, hit enter or click "Add Question" again. Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. How To Get There. Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. We’ll update this post with links to his further installments.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. Introduction. It's a mix of shock and excitement. This article intends to answer those questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

For the most part they were written at 2AM while I was working – however, I thought you might find them useful. Maple Butter. Search for: Videos. You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. I love startups. Is that true ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Ideally, this knowledge evolves over time — to the point where we can prevent or mitigate future mistakes from even occurring. But computers evolve far faster than the human brain. You can listen to the conversation here.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Ideally, this knowledge evolves over time — to the point where we can prevent or mitigate future mistakes from even occurring. But computers evolve far faster than the human brain. You can listen to the conversation here.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you can't find what you are looking for, hit enter or click "Add Question" again. If you want to read just one answer and get most out of it, read the first answer 36 Answers Saul Klein , Student of - and sometime co-conspira. Quora Home About Login Sign Up Add Question Before adding a question, search for it above.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary. Note: there is video from this event, but its not online yet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

We certainly didnt want to believe that our product was fundamentally flawed - we preferred to think it was a mechanical, usability, or technical problem. This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. Pros: The search bar makes finding info a snap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, June 17, 2010 No departments Big companies have departments. Startups are companies. Startups aspire to become big companies. Therefore, startups should have departments. Why do companies have departments?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So I thought I would walk you through exactly how to run a "fake landing page" test using cheap tools that require no technical skills whatsoever. So I thought I would walk you through exactly how to run a "fake landing page" test using cheap tools that require no technical skills whatsoever. You probably have a business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 9, 2009 Built to learn Its been an exhilarating ride since the Web 2.0 Expo last week. I have been meaning to write this post for days, but the meetings have been non-stop and I havent had much time. First of all, I promised to post the full slides of the talk, which are below. No engineering team.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. Just a quick history refresher.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

For those who hunger for a rigorous approach to managing product development, Donald Reinertsens book is epic. Myths are busted on practically every page, even myths that are associated with lean/agile. For example, take the lean dictum of working in small batches. Yet its not correct to say that batch sizes should be as small as possible.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Determining which of these methods of staffing software development projects is right for your company can be a challenging endeavor, and three opposing characteristics of business need to be considered: cost, risk and convenience. Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

I find these on-the-ground descriptions of the system and how they work so much more credible than just theory-type posts that I am excited to share them with you. I can personally attest that these guys know what they are talking about; I saw them do it first-hand. At IMVU it’s a core part of our culture to ship.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Share Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Each time, we use the defect as an opportunity to find out whats wrong with our process, and make a small adjustment. This approach is a the heart of breaking down the "time/quality/cost pick two" paradox , because these small investments cause the team to go faster over time. A better way is to see it as a learning opportunity.

Software Review 167

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Steve and I worked to find a metaphor that would help explain the power of lean startups, and why they have a serious competitive advantage, especially in these challenging economic times. Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. you get the idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. With Five Whys, teams can accelerate, even as they scale. Today, I want to talk about the mechanics of Five Whys in greater detail. First, a caveat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Or, if it really was prevented, what was the opportunity cost of choosing to prevent it ahead of time? And in most situations, there is significant cost involved in negotiating over the right estimates to plug in. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 5, 2009 The curse of prevention Beware! OK, I admit it. There is no virus.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

I have no doubt that the changes the team is currently working on are good, technically sound, and will deliver the benefits theyve claimed. Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Heres a company I met with recently. They have a product that has a moderate number of customers.

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